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• March 14, 2016

  (The New) Dynamics AX - Content

  If you haven’t heard, the new version of Dynamics AX is out and available. Lots has changed and there’s plenty to learn. Beyond the blogosphere there’s some official places to find out all about th...

• September 18, 2015

  General Update

  In case you hadn’t noticed… I haven’t posted in a while. For those of you who are connected to me in various ways, you have probably also noticed I had a job change and now work for Microsoft Dynam...

• November 12, 2014

  AX2012 Extension Framework

  In a lot of ways, us X++ developers have gotten lazy over the years. If you take a step back, there are a lot of things we do today that you probably would never do in any other programming environ...

• October 8, 2014

  AXUG Summit in St. Louis

  Next week (October 15-17) is the AXUG Summit in St. Louis. I will be presenting in various sessions and also participating in two MVP Panel sessions (“Ask the Experts”) - which for some reason aren...

• August 12, 2014

  TFS Build Library "Hotfix" Update - Beta of AX2009 TFS Library

  Yesterday I made an “emergency” update to the TFS build library on DynamicsAX Admin on CodePlex. A while ago we implemented ASYNC activities as well as support for the AXBUILD process at about the ...

• August 7, 2014

  Admin and TFS utilities for AX 2009

  For those of you reading this blog, you’re probably aware by now how heavily me and my team use TFS with AX 2012. However, we’ve been building this knowledge since AX2009 and we’ve done automated b...

• April 10, 2014

  Easy Automated Builds - Part 3

  In Part 1, we discussed installing the custom activity DLLs into TFS so the build controller and agents can use them. In Part 2, we reviewed where the default build workflows reside in TFS and wher...

• April 9, 2014

  Easy Automated Builds - Part 2

  In Part 1 we looked at installing the TFS custom activities into the source tree, telling the build controller where to find the DLLs. Finally we also made sure Visual Studio can find our DLL files...

• April 8, 2014

  Easy Automated Builds - Part 1

  I’m glad to announce updates to my Dynamics AX Admin Utilities, including a brand new build library. It’s been in use here at Sikich for quite a while now, and with our latest modifications I’m gla...

• January 10, 2014

  How We Manage Development - Automated Builds

  It’s been a while so it’s about time I continue the “How We Manage Development” articles. If you missed it, I wrote about our architecture of TFS and Dev machines and how we organize TFS projects. ...